Labor and Catholic leaders are demanding workers have direct input into AI workplace deployment through collective bargaining and social dialogue, arguing that technological decisions affecting millions should not rest solely with corporate executives or automated systems.
Pope Leo XIV called for disarming artificial intelligence in his first encyclical, warning that uncontrolled AI risks fueling warfare, exploitation, and new forms of slavery unless placed under human control and kept accessible to all.
Pope Leo XIV signed his first encyclical addressing artificial intelligence, emphasizing ethics-based approaches prioritizing human dignity and social relationships, positioning the Catholic Church as a moral authority in AI regulation debates amid tensions with the Trump administration's pro-development stance.